| Summary: | On 16 January 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan launched a Global Media Aids Initiative, with the aim of convincing the press, radio, television and Internet to join the fight against what has been called the "forgotten disease of the forgotten continent". Throughout the world, over 40 million people have the Hiv virus. In 2003 there were 5 million new infections and 3 million deaths were caused by Aids. The majority of those infected live in sub-Saharan Africa –the forgotten continent–, and most of them have no access to treatment. Furthermore, the largest part of the people at risk do not have the necessary information to avoid the infection. This is why, in sub-Saharan Africa, Aids is a "forgotten disease".
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